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Would you guys say that, on the whole, nation building is a desirable foreign policy objective? Why, or why not?

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Originally posted by nic01445 Would you guys say that, on the whole, nation building is a desirable foreign policy objective? Why, or why not?

umm. only when the US does it.

Coalition nation bldg seems to but a country in stasis.

Proof?

Look at NATO coalition in Bosnia/Kosovo, those places are still a mess... even Afghanistan is relatively a mess when compared to the US nation building done in Iraq.

UN led nation building has failed everywhere except for Timor (still mystery to me). Rack em up you say? Lazy I say, but Somolia and Balkans are good recent examples.

As for US led.. I think Haiti might be an exception.. but then again the US didn't nation build there, it just intervened and got out.. though I think the Hatians got a nice plumb loan from the affair.

I think the US led nation building is limited to missions where it is doing +90% of the nation building, instance like Japan, Germany, and Iraq.

yoepus this may be the reason for timors success http://homepage.esoterica.pt/~cdpm/oil01eng.htm

australia and new zealand have helped rebuild small nations in the pacific

most of the time specially trained police are sent over to these islands rather than the army

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